Eliminating the transverse instabilities of Kerr solitons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 4888-4891

  Anastassiou, Charalambos ^a,b   Soljačic, Marin ^a,c   Segev, Mordechai ^a,b   Eugenieva, Eugenia D ^d   Christodoulides, Demetrios N ^d   Kip, Detlef ^a,e   Musslimani, Ziad H ^a   Torres, Juan P ^a,f  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Lehigh University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRON TRAPS; KERR ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

KERR SOLITONS; NONLINEAR SCHROEDINGER EQUATIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE NONLINEARITY; TRANSVERSE INSTABILITIES;

SOLITONS;

EID: 0342467806     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4888     Document Type: Article

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